Robertson couldn’t agree more, noting that Fountain made a lot of friends with similar cancers when he was first diagnosed -- and many of them are no longer here.

“He deals with several handicaps, but he is alive and a constant blessing to us,” she wrote in a letter to her friends promoting a comedy show ‘fun-raiser’ for pediatric brain tumor research. Robertson will emcee the event that includes Anita Milner, a local senior comic.

Robertson says she started raising money for research shortly after Fountain was first diagnosed because “children don’t have deep pockets to support this effort.”

Despite his illness, he’s had some thrills. Make-A-Wish Foundation paid for a week-long visit to theme parks in Florida when he was nine. And he has parents, Jason (Robertson’s son) and Cecillia Fountain, and a grandmother who obviously care for him immensely.

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